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Crown Agent

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noun

  1. a member of a board appointed by the Minister for Overseas Development to provide financial, commercial, and professional services for a number of overseas governments and international bodies

  2. (not capitals) a solicitor dealing with criminal prosecutions

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The Crown Agent acts as legal advisor to the Lord Advocate.

From BBC • Sep. 10, 2012

In the same year he was appointed by the Crown "Agent and Sole Superintendent of the Six Nations and other northern Indians" inhabiting British territory north of the Carolinas and the Ohio River.

From Dutch and English on the Hudson A Chronicle of Colonial New York by Goodwin, Maud Wilder

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